Tuesday, August 26, 2014

IDF Operation Protective Edge - August 26, 2014

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8:00pm Hamas Victory in Gaza includes: No Water, No Electricity, 350,000 refugees. All they get is the opening of the humanitarian conveys via the border crossings with israel (which Israel keeps open anyway).

There will be discussions about an air/sea port for Gaza, but nothing is promised.

Israel will discuss the demilitarization of Gaza, but nothing is promised.

The cease fire has no stated end point.********************************************************************************************************8pm Antisemitism in New York Jewish couple attacked...

********************************************************************************************************7:46pm Channel 2 reports 1 Israeli killed and 2 seriously wounded in an Israeli Gaza border community (in the Eshkol region) from the mega rocket fire over the past hour. (before the 7:15 ceasefire started)********************************************************************************************************7:43pm Ceasefire seems to have started. The Egyptian plan says Israel must immediately open up the border crossing points.

Over the next month discussions of the following:Israel demands the demilitarization of GazaHamas demands a (duty free weapons bonanza) sea port.********************************************************************************************************7:34pm Roundup for past 25 minutes:

7:15 Eshkol7:14 Eshkol7:09 Shaar HaNegev

Hamas claims cease fire has started. Reports of Gaza celebrations.

Channel 10 reports that the IDF has been instructed to stop attacking Gaza (I didn't notice what we were attacking).

********************************************************************************************************7:10am Terror target hit in Gaza last night by IAF airstrike....see building before and after photos of a 13 story building terror target.

6:57am As we wait for reports on the previous rocket strike....here are where the sirens went off...6:47am At 6:32am minutes ago...there was a simultaneous, large scale rocket attack on Israel....Ashkelon....Ashdod...Tel Aviv...Herziliya...Hod Ha Sharon...Yahud (near the airport)...Savyon...Rosh Haayin...Shoham...

Direct hit reported on a building in the Ashkelon area....emergency forces responding.********************************************************************************************************

1:10am Nature abhors a vacuum.

If no one else is going to take the lead in fighting Islamic terrorism, then some of the more unlikely players are going to step up to bat.

********************************************************************************************************12:35am After consulting with the IDF, the Kiryat Shmona municipal council has decided against opening public bomb shelters and requesting for the public to stay in shelters.

I guess the IDF was convincing in whatever they said...********************************************************************************************************12:07pm Egypt has put forward a proposal for a 1 month ceasefire, to begin at 7am on Tuesday. Reportedly, Hamas has embraced the plan, and they are waiting for Netanyahu to respond.

There has been no comment fro Jerusalem on this story.

During the ceasefire, Israel and Hamas would continue to negotiate.

1 month from now, when the ceasefire would end (presuming that Hamas doesn't break the ceasefire earlier) is Rosh Hashana.********************************************************************************************************